Mobile version of the site jumps around

The div that contains the advert at the top of the page doesn't have a default height set and gets its dimensions from the content. Since the advert loads after the rest of the page this results in the page jumping downwards right at the moment I've decided what I want to tap.

Hey! You call this slop? Real slop has got chunks of things in it! This is more like gruel! And this Château le Blanc '68 is supposed to be served slightly chilled! This is room temperature! What do you think we are? Animals?

I'm sure we've had a similar issue before here, though it was more severe and caused crashes for some people too. At least it seems stable just now.

It is still a bit annoying though. It's the delay that's the annoying bit, as when it's slower it can take a good couple of seconds to load the ad, so you load the forum, click the thread you want, wait a sec, the ad loads, and the click counts as whatever takes up the screen space you tapped a second ago.

I was being terribly annoyed by it myself just earlier. I'm constantly ending up in user's profiles because the page loads, I go to tap "last page" on a thread I want to read and jus tthen, the ad loads, makes the page jump and I hit the username of the last poster from a different thread.

You guys are completely correct -- the way the ad loads on mobile is annoying and wrong.

I've made some changes so that the container the advert lives in is now set to a fixed height. The upshot of that is that the layout won't shift after the advert loads, so touches won't suffer from the annoying offsetting bug. The downside is that in the (rare) case of us not having an advert to show there will be an empty space.

I hope that helps! Please shout if you spot any other oddness related to the ads on the mobile site.